Muniini K. Mulera

Memories of early encounters with English

By Muniini K. MuleraUgandaMay 1, 20230 comments

#English #Bisamunyu #Kigezi #High #School #Budo

Photo: Main Hall and classrooms, King's College, Budo in April 1996 © Muniini K. Mulera ************** We all make grammatical mistakes in speaking and writing English. I certainly do. I frequently catch myself tongue tied as I struggle to extricate myself from ...

Law School: My Unfulfilled Dream

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 2, 20182 comments

#law #lawyer #unfulfilled #dream #law #school

I love law, as a profession. When I was an O-level (high school) student, I decided that I would become a lawyer. No, I had no clue what it entailed. I just wanted to be like John Wycliffe Rutagyemwa Kazoora. He was the lawyer. His was a household name in my neck of the ...

Dr. Apuuli Sanyu Byabanyagi: a patriot betrayed by his government

By Muniini K. MuleraSeptember 6, 20210 comments

#Byabanyagi #Makerere #Medical #School

This time fifty years ago, young men and women in various parts of Africa, preparing to write their university entrance examinations, probably did not have death on their minds. Not their own or that of close colleagues with whom they were preparing to conquer the world. Among ...

Festo Karwemera: a productive life, a great legacy

By Muniini K. MuleraKigyeziAugust 17, 20200 comments

#Karwemera #Kigyezi #Kigezi #Kigezi #High #School

To have a brilliant mind is a blessing. To put that mind to work - teaching students, supervising schools, carrying out extensive research and publishing reference books on your chosen subject – is a priceless legacy. To have that mind in excellent shape in your tenth decade ...

Enid Kanyangyeyo (1938-2014) did not know how to fail

By Muniini K. MuleraJuly 22, 20200 comments

#Enid #Kacanda #Kanyangyeyo #Mburara #International #School #Sabiti

Enid Kacanda Kanyangyeyo gave my wife and I a beautiful cow. People from the cattle-keeping nations in Africa will understand what this means. Enid, our very dear friend, has been gone for 6 years today, though it feels much longer than that. She remains a frequent reference ...

Void left by my father’s death filled with joyful thanksgiving

By Muniini K. MuleraNovember 11, 20191 comments

#Kisigo #Mulera #Muniini #Mulera #Kahondo #Rukooko #Nyamijumbi #Keiramibwa #Kigezi #High #School #Ezekiel #Balaba #Semu #Ndimbirwe

My father died last week. Tuesday November 5, 2019 has joined a list of dreadful dates whose memory will bring sadness of loss and the unfulfillable longing for another glimpse of a loved one. Yes, he had long run out of steam and had been in steady retreat for several years. The ...

David Wycliffe Tindyebwa: Impactful Ugandan hero

By Muniini K. MuleraDecember 10, 20180 comments

#Tindyebwa #Hornby #High #School #Blind #Teacher

My childhood memories are dominated by the exploits of famous athletes and other high achievers who inspired us to aim high in whatever we did. Kigyezi was a small place where we knew pretty much who-was-who among the great celebrities of the day. One of them was ...

Like the Proverbial Bad Penny……I had turned up again - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda EducationSeptember 21, 20172 comments

#Makerere #Medical #School #Class #of #1977

Photo: Class of 1977, Makerere University Medical School. (Photo credit: Medical Illustration Department, Makerere.) Throughout my teenage years, I used to suffer from acute attacks of sore throat especially during the hot and dry December holidays. On one such occasion, ...

Grateful that I chose a career in medicine - By Dr. Jane Nannono

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 21, 20170 comments

#Nannono #medicine #medical #school #makerere

Students continue to graduate from the eleven or so universities in my country during this month of March. I graduated forty years ago and by then, there was one university: Makerere University. Currently there are six public universities. Forty years today, I ...

Forty years later, not ready to hang up the stethoscope

By Muniini K. MuleraUganda Uganda Health MattersMarch 20, 20170 comments

#muniini #mulera #makerere #medical #school #medicine #graduation

It has been forty years since our class took the final bow from undergraduate life at Makerere University. We had shared five long years of learning, of pushing each other to excel, of building friendships and of supporting each other through very difficult experiences. We ...